All posts for the month August, 2012

As stated before, I’m going to keep warming up with 10 reps with each hand on the mung bean bag because I think it’s a good warmup, but now each week I’m going to increase the reps on the gravel bag by 5. So for example, beginning on 9/1 (day 235) it will look like this:

– 10 reps on the mung bean bag

– 45 reps on the gravel bag

And then the following week (day 242) will be:

– 10 reps on the mung bean bag

– 50 reps on the gravel bag

And so on until I get to a total of 100. It’s going to take about 8 more weeks to get there and I will reach that goal on day 298, which will be 11/3/2012.

I think 90 reps on the gravel bag will eventually get me to a good level of conditioning, and I probably won’t need to go above that. I am planning on staying with the gravel bag indefinitely and have no definite plans to move on to the steel shot bag, but knowing me I’ll probably eventually give it a try just for the challenge/experience.

I’ve been feeling some interesting things during my qigong sessions recently. As I mentioned back when it first started happening, it’s a peculiar feeling, as if my arms were submerged in water. It only happens sometimes, though. I’m not sure what it is. Some people would say “it’s the qi moving through your arms.” Perhaps. There’s something going on, though. I don’t think it has any effect on my strikes. It could just be the feeling of increased blood rushing through the area, and because I’m standing there doing qigong I’m paying more attention to it.

What’s more intriguing is that other people have described the exact same feeling; specifically the feeling of “waves.”